Hands-On Microsoft Access: A Practical Guide to Improving Your Access Skills

EBook Description: Millions of people use Microsoft Access, but only a small fraction of them are really comfortable with it. If you're ready to go ?beyond the wizards??and become a confident, highly effective Access user?Hands-On Microsoft Access was written for you. In plain English, Bob Schneider helps you master crucial principles for building flexible, powerful databases. Discover how to enter data more easily, retrieve it more freely, manipulate it more successfully, analyze it with greater sophistication, and share it more effectively. Schneider's dozens of hands-on examples thoroughly demystify Access, and his friendly, conversational style makes it more approachable than ever before. Hands-On Microsoft Access presents solutions for the challenges you're most likely to encounter, including * How do Access objects and interfaces fit together, and when should I use each one? * What's the best way for me to organize my fields into tables? * How can I modify the tables, forms, and reports an Access wizard created for me? * How can I design forms and reports for people to use more effectively? * How do primary keys and relationships work, and why are they so important? * How do I make sure my data stays consistent and accurate? * How do I build queries that give me the right information?quickly, efficiently, and reliably? * How do I use data from other sources, or deliver Access data to other people or programs? * What are PivotTables and PivotCharts, what can I do with them, and how do I use them? Written for Access 2003, this book also contains special instructions for Access 2002 users and extensive coverage of issues relevant to Access 95, 97, and 2000.

This practical, hands-on tutorial expertly builds your skills with Microsoft Office Access 2003?one step at a time! With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and practice exercises to learn exactly the tools and techniques you need. Topics include: building a database; linking to data from other Microsoft applications, databases, and HTML and XML files; using forms, filters, queries, and reports to capture and analyze data; helping to prevent data corruption; sharing data over the Web; and more. The book also helps you prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam for Access and makes a great on-the-job desk reference. The companion CD includes practice files you can use as you learn, as well as the Microsoft Office System Reference pack, which contains templates and clip art, an eBook of Step by Step, and four other eBooks: the Microsoft Office System Quick Reference; the Insider's Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003; the Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition; and Introducing the Tablet PC. Designed for beginning and intermediate level users, STEP BY STEP puts you in charge of developing the skills you need, exactly when you need them!

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